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10 best car engines for 2010
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March 31, 2010 at 8:30 pm #3826Jeff in KentuckyParticipant
I like the Subaru engine the best of these, but my wife wants an automatic transmission and this turbocharged engine only comes with a manual transmission, and I wish the Subaru Legacy looked more like a Nissan 350Z but with a lower price:
March 31, 2010 at 9:07 pm #25331JackTradeParticipantis my favorite…there were doubts early on, but it really does turn out to provide V8 power in a V6 (though I still prefer those old dinosaur 8s myself).
The new Taurus Interceptor police car has this engine, and I think that’ll be the real test of durability…if it can handle cop duty without lots of problems, expect it to become Ford’s everday hi-po engine.
April 1, 2010 at 1:40 am #25336Jeff in KentuckyParticipantI am driving a 2006 Toyota Rav4, with a 269 horsepower V6- it gets 17 to 27 mpg, and is lighter than a V8 so it corners better. My wife bought a 2008 Nissan Rogue- the 4 cylinder engine and the CVT transmission from the Altima have more power than any other similar 4 cylinder that we test drove, with 22 to 28 mpg. We like the higher seats than a car for visibility and safety.
I like the lower center of gravity Subaru engines the best, except the cars they are in do not look very stylish. Consumer Reports surveys in their April 2010 magazine show that in order of best overall reliability, it is Honda, Subaru, then Toyota (Nissan is 5th, and Chrysler is last). The Ford Fusion gets top ratings for reliability, but the Nissan Altima has the best test scores for this type of car, and the Subaru Forester was rated the best small SUV (my wife did not like it’s looks, and the nearest dealer is about 25 miles from our house in case of a warranty problem).
April 1, 2010 at 8:49 am #25343eternal05ParticipantThe latest 2.0T (two-liter turbocharged inline-four) is ridiculous. It has BETTER fuel economy than the 2.0T in my car (an ’06), AND it has MORE horsepower (211hp vs. 200hp) and WAAAAAAYYY more torque (258 ft-lbs vs. 207 ft-lbs). This thing has so much torque that, especially for consumers who never rev anywhere near their peak horsepower, there’s really no point in getting the optional V6.
April 1, 2010 at 2:01 pm #25344JackTradeParticipant…a combination of engine technology improvements combined with increased traffic congestion has given rise to the increasingly common situation of the base engine being just as good as the optional one in like 75% of situations.
As a ponycar guy myself, it’s insane what’s going on with the base V6 engines. The ’11 Mustang base engine puts out about 40 more HP and 20 more TQ than my ’02 V8, and gets better mileage…Ford hard to do this as the current ’10 base Camaro already does the same thing. The V8s are truly monsterous, breaking the 400 HP barrier (and these are just the run-of-the-mill cars, not the Shelby special editions).
April 1, 2010 at 7:53 pm #25347TrialsRiderParticipantNarrows the field real fast, but I haven’t bought anything for the last 6 years that has a rubber timing belt. Chain drive, gear drive (I wish) I’ll even take pushrods over a rubber belt now, the maintenance cost just became too high.
April 1, 2010 at 9:06 pm #25349Jeff in KentuckyParticipantIt is difficult to find a new car with a rubber timing belt- no one wants to either replace the belt or take the chance that it will break after 100,000 miles.
April 5, 2010 at 2:40 am #25411eternal05ParticipantI’m really glad to hear that Ford is doing some great things with that car…it was long overdue. The Mustangs of my youth were crap, just lame coupes with the badge of a legendary but long dead muscle car. The “new” Mustang of…what was it…2005? That was the first mustang since this one
to catch my eye. The new ones, in my opinion, are even sleeker (than the ’05, not the GT500…oh no…). To hear that Ford is doing the remarkably un-American and making more horsepower with less displacement and better fuel economy is wonderful. I was seriously worried that American cars would be a thing of the past. Maybe they’ll stick around after all.
I was reading about it a bit, and it seems that Ford did a similar job with the Mustang engine that Audi did with their S4 that I got to drive a few months back. Previous models ran with V8 engines, but the 2011, like the new Mustang, is back to a V6, but one that puts out just as much power:
2011 Mustang:
-Displacement: 3.7L
-Power: 305hp
-Torque: 280 lb-ft2011 S4:
-Displacement: 3.0L
-Power: 333hp
-Torque: 325 lb-ft -
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